Their top choice: Ex-Secretary of State Condi Rice, the now-Stanford professor, resident of sorts at Stanford’s Hoover Institution think tank and billiard room, and apparently one GREAT recruiter for Stanford sports.

Condi had 26 percent of the vote, followed by GOP prez also-ran Rick Santorum with 21 percent (you may remember him as the man who said Romney would be the “worst” Republican to nominate).

Though Sec. Rice is a brilliant person, allow us to poke a hole in this trial balloon with three words: Iraq….. Afghanistan… Bush……yes, too soon.

Mitt said he will choose a Veep before the GOP convention in August. With that bit of drama sucked out of the convention, that means that the punditocracy has seven months of thumb-twiddling/sucking until Election Day with precious little to punditocratize about other than Ted Nugent’s assertion that his political enemies use the Constitution as toilet paper.